Australia

Australian trees still getting the chop

Australian trees still getting the chopSydney - Australia, a rich country, has frequently lectured Indonesia, its poor neighbour, on felling of its forests.

Australians, though, seem unconcerned at the rate of land clearing of their own continent, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) claimed.

Queensland, which occupies most of the east coast, is where the bush is disappearing the fastest. The latest annual edition of the Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) reports that 
375,000 hectares of forest were cleared in 2005.

Australian stocks perk up on bargain hunting

Sydney - Australian stocks perk up on bargain huntingAustralian stocks rallied at the bell on Monday after a horror trading session at the end of last week saw them slip to a five-year low.

In early trading, the ASX 200 gained 221 points, or 5.5 per cent, to 4,182 to break the 4,000 barrier.

Commsec economist Craig James said bargain hunting would buoy the market following Friday's 8.3-per-cent crash, the biggest drop since 1987.

The latest beauty bug Down Under – manscaping!

The latest beauty bug Down Under – manscaping!Melbourne, Oct 12 : It’s not just metrosexual guys who are opting for manscaping – shaving of male pubic hair – for high profile men too are taking up the trend.

According to an Australian salon owner, Stephen Foyle more and more high profile men want to be well groomed and are going for manscaping.

Foyle revealed that CEOs, and many high profile men often visit his Sydney ‘Detail for Men’ salon to get treatments like manscaping.

Australia moves to increase guarantees for bank deposits

Sydney - Australia moves to increase guarantees for bank depositsAustralia is set to join other countries struggling to maintain investor confidence by raising the level at which it guarantees bank deposits.

The proposed threshold was 20,000 Australian dollars (13,200 US dollars) but the government is expected to raise this to 100,000 Australian dollars.

Notorious Andrew Symonds Needs 'Real Action' To Get Back

Andrew Symonds, the ace Australian cricketer may be very good with the Notorious Andrew Symonds Needs 'Real Action' To Get Backgame but it takes more than that to play international cricket. The Player was sent back from Darwin during the home series against Bangladesh after his deliberate absence at the compulsory team meeting to go fishing. Ever since, the cricketer is in great soup coz as a result of such arrogant behavior he was not included in the Australian Test Team to play in India.

Australia claims runner-up in tall tree stakes

Australia claims runner-up in tall tree stakesSydney - Australia claimed Saturday that a 101-metre giant swamp gum found last week just 4 kilometres from a popular Tasmanian tourist attraction is the world's tallest hardwood tree, tallest eucalypt and its tallest flowering tree.

The 400-year-old whopper is only a few metres shorter than the world-record 115-metre redwood in California's Redwood National Park.

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